French people
Noun
Meaning
the people of France
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Examples
As the majority of French people wanted to be rid of them, they could achieve their purpose only by extraordinary means.
And historians suggest that it was only heard by a small number of French people.
De Gaulle retorted that the French people thought he was a reincarnation of Joan of Arc, to which Churchill replied that the English had had to burn the last one.
Busch biographer Manuela Diers declares the story "tasteless work, drawing on anti-French emotions and mocking the misery of French people in Paris, which is occupied by Prussian troops".
During the Siege of Paris, from 19 September 1870 to 28 January 1871, which brought about French defeat in the Franco-Prussian war, the French people suffered great famine and poverty.
By the time that Louis-Auguste and Marie-Antoinette were married, the French people generally regarded the Austrian alliance with dislike, and Marie-Antoinette was seen as an unwelcome foreigner.